GreenEarth: A blog about an initiative by icrewsystems

When you buy a server, what does it do? It starts up and handles processing tasks. The more computing power you need, the more powerful your server will be. This is not so green for the earth with the amounts of CO2 it produces. Today the growing demand for data and the use of online services is putting a lot of pressure on the carbon footprint of data centres. To help build and manage these facilities, server makers and hosting companies have started to look for alternative solutions.

Similarly we at icrewsystems have examined the potential of a promising technology that could revolutionise the way we use servers in terms of the carbon consumption. The main idea behind this initiative was from our dear founder Leonard Selvaraja CEO. He suggested that we plant an equal amount of trees for the amount co2 a server will produce. 

Hence project GreenEarth was established with a aim to plant more trees and neutral carbon emission from the data servers with this the project lead by Samay Bhattacharrya Lead developer and Head of engineering of icrewsystems has planned to reach out to companies who want to go carbon neutral from their servers such companies will register on greenearth and when the company share it’s server usage details a estimated amount of carbon emission is calculated by greenearth and a estimated amount of cost of planting a tree and the proposal is sent to back to the interested company. Icrewsystems then collaborate’s with a NGO for planting the trees entire amount of cost of setting up the trees in paid upfront to the NGO. Once the trees are successfully planted an update is sent to the customer with pictures of the health of the sapling upto a full born tree, and other extra costs associated with growing the tree successfully every month i.e fertilizers etc... With this icrewsystems awards a certificate of appreciation and a carbon neutral badge when all the required trees are successfully planted.

We are also proud to announce that this is an open source  project and anyone is welcome to bring their creative ideas to light and the work done in developing greenearth from scratch has been done by Rishi Kataria, Shreya Rani, Mehal Sakhti and Hafiz Mutalib under the leadership of DInesh Kumar and Thirumalai Raj. We thank their generous efforts and contribution towards the Greenearth initiative by icrewsystems.

Link to our open source Github repository: https://github.com/icrewsystemsofficial/GreenEarth